The best work of art I know of pertaining to the Armenian genocide is the song "Speak On It" by Knowledge. This song is on the Axis Of Justice Concert Series Volume One. "Speak On It" is truly unsettling to listen to, and describes many of the atrocities that were done to the Armenians, it also explains why Turkey wanted to kill the Armenians
Thursday, February 14, 2008
DRP's work for week 2
Before the reading in class i knew of the 1915 genocide, but only that Turkey had tried to kill the Armenians. I find it very strange that people know very little about what happened, or that it even happened at all. Being that it was the first genocide of the 20th century I would have expected to have learned something about it in school. I think that we are purposefully kept unaware of what happened by the government ;for, it shows the united states in a very poor light. we had every opportunity to help stop what was happening and yet we did nothing .
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I totally agree. Seems like since it was the "first," that we should've heard more about it. Maybe it's just because Turkey and the Armenians were/are off our radar since they're not part of the "Western world." Maybe with more information we'll not let this happen again anymore.
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